The World Cyber Games brings its Olympic-style StarCraft II tournament to Kunshan, China this year, and will run November 27 through December 1. Who The favorites to win this tournament are mainly from Korea. Soulkey was ranked #1 in the 2013 World Championship Series final standings, and 2012 WCS Champion PartinG is fresh off his […]

The next event in the Intel Extreme Masters StarCraft II circuit takes place in Singapore, and is scheduled to run November 27 through December 1. Who 16 players will fight their way into the group stage of IEM Singapore through a double-elimination bracket. Bracket #1 features a potential rematch from a Wings of Liberty classic: […]

Welcome to another StarCraft II Arcade Highlight. Today we’re taking a look at Hive Keeper. In Hive Keeper, you defend your hive from invading forces by raising an army of minions. The controls of the game may take some getting used to, as you do not directly control every action of your creature, and many […]

TeSPA (The eSports Association) recently announced that founders Adam Rosen, Tyler Rosen, and Chris Kelly have joined the Blizzard eSports team. In addition to supporting a variety of eSports initiatives here at Blizzard, Adam, Tyler, and Chris will continue to focus and enhance their efforts around developing the expansive TeSPA network. Click here to read […]

After an exciting and successful global finals at BlizzCon, the 2013 StarCraft II World Championship Series has come to a close. All of our partners, including GomTV, OGN, NASL, ESL, MLG, and Twitch, did a remarkable job in producing WCS and bringing StarCraft II eSports to a global audience. We're now ready to share details […]

Last month, we requested your help in playtesting a variety of potential balance changes for Heart of the Swarm. After two iterations of potential changes, two brand new versions of the test map, and a community-driven balance test tournament, we're pleased to announce that we're ready to move forward with a balance update as we […]

Season 6 of 2013 StarCraft II league play has begun! Bonus pools and standings have been reset, and 2013 Season 5 milestones have been awarded. You can take a look at your 2013 Season 5 results by visiting the Leagues and Ladders section of your StarCraft II character profile. Furthermore, Season 6 brings new maps […]

Tony Hsu, Kevin Johnson, David Kim, and Kim Phan from the StarCraft II, Community development, and eSports teams took the opportunity to talk about what the near future holds for StarCraft II with the impending Patch 2.1, multiplayer gameplay and balance, as well as reviewed the World Championship Series thus far. Below, we've gathered a […]

The race to BlizzCon is over. Now that we know which players have been called to BlizzCon, the time has come to focus on the competition at hand. The mix of hopefuls includes icons of competitive StarCraft®, newcomers with fresh styles, and dominant players showing no signs of slowing down. In various ways, they’ve all […]

The 16 players have assembled in Anaheim for the WCS Global Finals and the magnitude of the event is starting to settle in for everybody involved. This is it. There will be $100,000 and the Gosu Trophy for the winner, along with unquestioned StarCraft II supremacy. After the epic fight just to make it to […]